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The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences.
List of contents
Introduction
1. The Gathering
PART I. NEGOTIATING TIES WITH YOUNG ADULTS
2. Four Models of Adolescent Mother-Grandmother Relationships in Black Inner-City Families
3. One Week Until College
4. The Good Daughter
5. Forgotten Streams in the Family Life Course: Utilization of Qualitative Retrospective Interviews in the Analysis of Lifelong Single Women¿s Family Careers
6. Social Demography of Contemporary Families and Aging
7. The Last Diamond of Summer
8. Intergenerational Solidarity and the Structure of Adult Child-Parent Relationships in American Families
PART II. CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE GENERATIONS IN MIDLIFE
9. Dancing with Death
10. Historical Perspectives on Caregiving: Documenting Women¿s Experiences
11. Only Daughter
12. The Experience of Grandfatherhood
13. Father¿s Sorrow, Father¿s Joy
14. Last Christmas Gift From a Mother
15. Extended Kin Networks in Black Families
16. Looking After: A Son¿s Memoir
PART III. THE CENTRALITY OF INTIMACY IN LATER MIDLIFE
17. Marriage and Family Life of Blues-Collar Men
18. Breathing Lessons
19. Grandparenting Styles: Native American Perspectives
20. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
21. Closeness, Confiding, and Contact Among Siblings in Middle and Late Adulthood
22. Shared Filial Responsibility: The Family as the Primary Caregiver
23. What Remains
24. Marriage as Support or Strain? Marital Quality Following the Death of a Parent
PART IV. TRANSITIONS AT WORK AND AT HOME IN EARLY OLD AGE
25. Retirement and Marital Satisfaction
26. U.S. Old-Age Policy and the Family
27. Elderly Mexican American Men: Work and Family Patterns
28. Family Ties and Motherly Love
29. Predictor and Outcomes of the End of Co-Resident Caregiving in Aging Families of Adults with Mental Retardation or Mental Illness
30. Gender and Control Among Spouses of the Cognitively Impaired: A Research Note
31. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
32. Happiness in Cornwall
PART V. CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN LATER LIFE
33. Final Rounds: A Father, a Son, the Golf Journey of a Lifetime
34. Manon Reassures Her Lover
35. Starboys
36. Divorced and Reconstituted Families: Effects on the Older Generation
37. Understanding Elder Abuse and Neglect
38. Obasan in Suburbia
39. Selectivity Theory: Social Activity in Life-Span Context
40. Wallace Nelson, 85, and Juanita Nelson, 70: Deerfield, Massachusetts
41. Letters From a Father
About the author
Alexis Walker holds the Jo Anne Leonard Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies and is Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University, where she directs the undergraduate certificate program in gerontology. Her research on mother-daughter relationships and family caregiving has been funded by the National Institute on Aging.Margaret Manoogian-O′Dell is a doctoral student focusing her academic work in family gerontology and women studies. She has spent the last 15 years working directly with undergraduate and graduate students in cocurricular and advising functions and has taught family studies and adult development and aging courses to undergraduates. Her current research concerns older women and intergenerational relationships.Lori A. McGraw is a doctoral candidate in human development and family studies at Oregon State University, where she teaches undergraduate courses that focus on individual and family development and the connections among social hierarchies. Her research highlights women′s unpaid family labor and their family ties.
Summary
The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences.
